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Ubuntu: USN-4179-1 (CVE-2019-18397): FriBidi vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4179-1 (CVE-2019-18397): FriBidi vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/07/2019
Created
11/12/2019
Added
11/08/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

A buffer overflow in the fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() function in lib/fribidi-bidi.c of GNU FriBidi through 1.0.7 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code by delivering crafted text content to a user, when this content is then rendered by an application that uses FriBidi for text layout calculations. Examples include any GNOME or GTK+ based application that uses Pango for text layout, as this internally uses FriBidi for bidirectional text layout. For example, the attacker can construct a crafted text file to be opened in GEdit, or a crafted IRC message to be viewed in HexChat.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libfribidi0

References

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